Kate R Gilchrist

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Fantasies of Singledom

Living in the Cultural Imaginary of Single Femininity

Beschreibung

In Fantasies of Singledom, Kate R. Gilchrist examines how the representation of the single woman manifests itself in contemporary popular culture across the United Kingdom, the United States, and Europe, placing this image in juxtaposition to the lived experiences and self-narratives of single femininity in everyday life. Gilchrist skillfully brings these two conceptualizations of feminine singlehood into conversation with one another by incorporating in-depth interviews with twenty-five women living in London alongside critical analyses of eight cross-genre media texts which foreground single women. In doing so, she illuminates not only the ways in which women's experiences draw on or converge with media representations, but also where their narratives resist or rework such ideas, interrogating recurring themes of success, transformation, autonomy, silencing, invisibility, and-perhaps most prominently-the notion of the "ideal" femininity being a coupled one. Building on research that has largely centered on North American contexts until now, Gilchrist also considers how these discourses manifest intersectionally across age, class, and regional demographics, demonstrating the necessity of a multi-faceted approach in achieving a fuller understanding of how experiences of singledom are shaped by external factors. Ultimately, Fantasies of Singledom significantly expands upon and complicates existing theorizations of the relationship between cultural representation and gendered subjectivity formation in postfeminist cultural contexts.

Autor

Kate R. Gilchrist is Lecturer in Digital Media at University College London's Department of Culture, Communication and Media, UK. She completed her PhD in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics in 2021. As well as publications based on her thesis, and representations of female desire in popular culture, Kate has also co-published on topics ranging from menopause, media and the workplace, to inequalities in the gig economy. She was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Lecturer in Gender at the University of Lincoln. She has also taught at the London School of Economics and King's College London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 28mm x 28mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781666966893
• ISBN-10: 1666966894
• Artikelnr.: 74368764